TheParsiChronicle.com

Updated April 11, 2010

AS OF APRIL 11, 2010, I HAVE STOPPED UPDATING THIS WEB SITE  www.TheParsiChronicle.com
Instead, my energies are focused on www.TheMissingParsi.com
The several thousand articles listed below will continue to remain on this web site.

Chronicling Parsi culture on the Net
Afternoon Dispatch & Courier - Bombay,India
Gandi founded the Parsi Chronicle in late 2003 and since
then it has become the most visited site on Zoroastrians.
http://www.cybernoon.com/DisplayArticle.asp?section=fromthepress&
subsection=inbombay&xfile=April2006_inbombay_standard9505

After the great success of www.TheParsiDirectory.com, where more than 63,000 Parsis, Iranis, and Zoroastrains have registered themselves, we have now launched www.Zoroastrians.net This new web site is unique in that it covers everything related to us Parsis, Iranis, and Zoroastrains. Plus you can post your comments on improvements, additions, and deletions in each topic. You can also include your own website about your area of interest in the appropriate topic to have a global reach.

Started a new web site called TheParsiVideo.com. Please check it out at www.TheParsiVideo.com and let me know your thoughts. The idea behind the TheParsiVideo.com is simple: use the power of the Internet to help fellow Parsi's and Zoroastrians be able to view and hear videos and audio's about our community. Consider it a audio visual history of our community.

Started a new web site called TheMissingParsi.com. Please check it out at www.TheMissingParsi.com and let me know your thoughts. The idea behind the TheMissingParsi.com is simple: use the power of the Internet to help fellow Parsis and Zoroastrians connect with people they have lost touch with. Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

Started yet another web site called TheParsiMatch.com. Please check it out at www.TheParsiMatch.com and let me know your thoughts. Very simply it is a FREE match making web site for our community. So go ahead and register every single Zoroastrian man and woman you know for FREE, and you will be rewarded in heaven for having made a Zoroastrian Match :)

Everything you ever wanted to know about Parsis and Zoroastrians!

To date, over 100,000 people have visited TheParsiChronicle.com and it now ranks as one
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Hi and welcome to TheParsiChronicle.com

My name is Ader Gandi and I live in San Francisco, California, USA. My email address is Ader@Gandi.com and AderGandi@gmail.com . my AIM name is AGandi .... my MSN Messenger is AderGandi

I started TheParsiChronicle.com on December 1st. 2003.

My idea behind the TheParsiChronicle.com is simple: keep a chronicle of Parsi-Zoroastrians mentioned in the news. Consider it a living history of our community.

I welcome your comments and suggestions. You can subscribe to future news about Parsis and Zoroastrians by emailing Ader@Gandi.com with the words subscribe to the Parsi Chronicle in the subject line.





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Hi Ader, Villi joins me in congratulating you on a great web site. I visit it often, and tell a lot of people about it; specially those who express an interest in our religion. Ken Bhappu

If you are the same Ader Gandi from Parsi Colony in Karachi i salute you on launching this site. It is very informative . Regards Rohinton Jehangir

Ader, The Parsi Chronicle is a great idea; I am a journalist with the Philadelphia Inquirer. Would love to stay in touch with you. Regards,
- Porus P. Cooper

Hello Ader, I am Mehernosh from London and want to say I am glad I visited your site. Will keep in touch with it. It has good links and lots of information. Thank you.
Mehernosh Pajnigar

Great website you have; as an adopted Parsi (I'm English by birth and married to a Parsi), I find great interest in the different pieces from all over the world, containing different., mind-opening perspectives.
Selina Darukhanawala

I love your site!!! I am not a Parsi but I am entranced and in deep admiration of your culture and history. I have read quite a bit about Parsis but not enough by far. Your site was a great find. Sincerely,
Chloe Ross, West Hollywood, Ca.

Dear Ader, As a fellow Zarathushtrian, allow me to congratulate you on hosting and setting up a new web site, theparsichronicle.com. I have visited it and perused almost all of the articles. It makes very interesting reading. -Noshir

Read almost all articles. I think the varied choice adds flavor. You have a bit of current, past, music, social issues and the arts. Good luck. J...

The Parsi Chronicle is very sexy - light weight (data transferred by loading the page) and simple. Congratulations on the inauguration! Cheers! Kir...

Hi Ader. My name is Ava and im a young parsi girl living in England. Iv searched the web high and low for good sites about our religion and by-far, yours is one of the best. Keep up the good work! take care.

Ader, I'm really impressed You're keeping us alive! Keep it up. Soonu...

Hi, I am a Zoroastrian working now in bangalore, I just came upon your site and wanted to say that I think by you creating this site you have not only widened the scope for all of our community to know more, but also for people to feel a more closer bond to their near and dear. Take care and keep up the good work.
Dinaa...

Been reading your site with interest for the last two months. I look forward every week to see what the media has to say about us. Hope you can find the time and energy to keep it up. - Aspi Doctor

Ader, I'm just writing to you to say thank you for setting up theparsichronicle.com website. It's fantastic! As a Parsi, it's great to find so much international Zoroastrian news & information in one place - especially as I live in London and don't get to spend that much time with fellow Parsis. Once again, thank you & well done. Shirin

Nexus between politics and religion
MyNews.in
They are called as Parsis in India. After landing in India the group met the King ... It is said the king asked the Parsi leader as to how his people were ..

Ideal Corner: Motorcycles, Parsi food and raspberry cola
CNNGo.com
by Sanjiv Khamgaonkar No Parsi meal is complete without raspberry cola. This brand has been quenching the community's thirst since 1865. ...

Rising tide for Indian writers also lifts Pakistani authors
National
“We are not far behind India in literature but we are far behind in education,” said the Parsee writer. “In Urdu, we have a very rich literature but in ...

Govt budgets for dwindling Parsis
Times of India
NEW DELHI: Not much is known about what can be done to check the dwindling number of Parsis. There has been much concern, even heartburn, but solutions have ...

Wadias: Gujarat's philanthropic architects
Times of India
The college is a fine example of Parsi philanthropy by Sir Jamshedji Jeejeebhai whose generosity extended to Gujarat as well. In Surat, the Sir JJ School is ...

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Malaysia Star

Having the write stuff
Malaysia Star
Born in Mumbai in 1962 to a Parsi family, he was educated in the prestigious Doon School in Dehradun before moving on to study English at Cambridge ...


'Fearless Nadia' a Bollywood megastar
Brisbane Times
The Wadias were devotees of the minority Parsee religion, which had a very liberated approach to women's rights. JBH in particular loved to invest his ...

My flamingo family
Times of India
The flamingoes who descend on Mumbai in their thousands probably outnumber all the residents of all the Parsi colonies here. My personal migratory record is ...

Magic Flute' enchants
St. John's Telegram
Zarathustra (or "Zoroaster" in Greek) is not exactly a household name these days. Yet the ancient Persian prophet had a deity-like influence on cultures ...

Sepandarmazgan, day of love in Persian culture
Press TV
The Zoroastrian tradition is named after Sepandarmaz, Earth Guardian Angel, which is the symbol of passion, friendship and modesty. ...

Zoroastrianism in Greater Boston
Dr. Khojeste Mistree, these scholars played a critical role in inspiring Boston- area families to form an organization. At the time, a few Zoroastrian ...

Why Mumbai belongs to all of us
mydigitalfc.com
History has forgotten this but the first Parsi settler came to Bombay in 1640, he was Dorabji Nanabhoy Patel. In 1689-90, a severe plague epidemic broke out ...

Learning how to listen to a symphony
The News International
This is reflected in the audience, which is mainly Parsi. South Bombay has 50000 Parsis, and many if not most of them would have listened to this music at ...

Bapsi Sidhwa
National
One such person, a Parsee priest who was so poor that he slept on a bench in a temple in Bombay, visited Lahore at the invitation of my mother. ...

AFP

Indians get particular about online marriage
AFP
... consultant in Mumbai, runs www.theparsimatch.com, one of a number of websites for the dwindling community of followers of the ancient Zoroastrian faith. ...

Changing his stripes
Hindustan Times
The wonderful Marathi film, Harishchandrachee Factory, nominated for the Oscars, has been co-produced by Ronnie Screwvala, a Parsi who, like millions of ...

Sounds can be therapeutic
Daily News & Analysis
Among spiritual sounds, Shenaz connects most to her Parsi prayers recited in Avesta, an ancient language.She says, “Just the sound of the prayers brings a ...

Mainstream Religion of Zoroastrianism and Its Influence on Later ...
Student Operated Press
The ancient Greek philosophers who used to study Prophet Zarathushtra`s teachings pronounced his name like Zoroaster, hence the anglicized name of Zoroaster ...

The Parsi community in the city continues to play a vital role in ...
Indian Express
While the dictionary defines them as members of Zoroastrian origin who came to India from Pars or Persia - but the small yet fun loving community of Parsis ...

Parsi widow escapes 17-year confinement
Times of India
SURAT: For 17 years, Parvin Jungalwala, 40, a Parsi widow, allegedly spent her life in home confinement. However, she decided to end her torture and the ...

Parsis more prone to cancer: Study
Daily News & Analysis
An alarming statistic emerging from the Mumbai Cancer Registry indicates that Parsis are at a higher risk of getting cancer than those from other ...

Mainstream Religion a Unifying Thread: Part VI Zoroastrianism
Student Operated Press
Today, we will be moving the lens forward in time again "towards Zoroastrianism. Zoroastrianism must be regarded as an important world religion, ...

Achaemenid K'aba of Zoroaster On The Verge Of Collapse
The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies
LONDON, (CAIS) -- The Achaemenid dynastic structure known as the Ka'aba of Zoroaster is on the verge of collapse due to escalating earth sinkage at the ...

Dubai, Highlights of the 9 World Zoroastrian Congress | Parsi News ...
Khorshidian, BPP chair Dinshaw Mehta and trustees Khojeste Mistree, Armaity Tirandaz, Jimmy Mistry and Arnavaz Mistry, FEZANA President Bomi Patel, and ...


Herodotus, and the Parsis at Thermopylae
The News International
The Persians of course were Zarathushtrians, and their descendants are the Parsis of Bombay, Surat, Navsari and Karachi. It is strange to think that one of ...

Iranians Celebrate Ancient Persian Fire Fest
NPR
by AP Enlarge AP An Iranian Zoroastrian priest sets fire on an already prepared pile of wood, where Zoroastrians gather in a ceremony to mark Sadeh, ...

Travel blog: That Burning Feeling
TravelBite.co.uk
Really, who
would want to come and see a Zoroastrian Fire Temple with no fire? Well, that's when you get the state owned gas company to install a pipeline ...

The link between cricket and Mahatma Gandhi
Times of India
However, in the second match against the Parsees, the committee included all brothers, naming Baloo vice-captain. The 1920 Quadrangular was their most ...

The big fat Indian wedding
indiablooms
... the social circuit of Kolkata, recently attended wedding of dancer Tanushree Shankar's daughter Sreenanda Shankar with her Parsee groom Gev Satarawalla. ...

University of Tehran restoring Ferdowsi statue
Tehran Times
A gift from the Parsee and Zoroastrian communities of India, the statue was erected at Ferdowsi Square on October 1, 1945. In 1959, the statue was replaced ...

Centre will help Parsis to boost count
Daily News & Analysis
Concerned about the dwindling Parsi population in the country, the ministry of minority affairs is trying to come up with a concoction to reverse the trend. ...

Pay Rs 1L for 'botched' piles operation, surgeon told
Times of India
The court took into account the opinion given by a BD Petit Parsee General Hospital doctor; it said Pastakia was admitted to the hospital with profuse ...

Return to the fold
Mumbai Mirror
The latest subject of debate in the Parsi-Zoroastrian community has been the ban on two priests from praying for the dead at the Towers of Silence. ...

Old man by the sea
The Hindu
There is the story, true, about how he and other former students of Karachi's BVS Parsi School were asked to rescue a bust of Gandhi during the Hindu-Muslim ...

A Man With a Mission
Khaleej Times
Though born in a Parsi family, he takes pride more as a humanist than aligning to any sect or religion. Irrespective of the fact that he belongs to a ...

For this 86-year-old, everyday is Uttarayan
Times of India
Since he was seven years old at a Parsi orphanage in Surat, to this date, Homi Pestonji Ghadiyali, 86, has been flying kites. He has a huge fan following ...

Guest Voices: Zoroastrianism's decline toward zero - On Faith at ...
Khojeste Mistree, a self-proclaimed conservative member of the community, spoke in Dubai about retaining Zoroastrianism's "ethnic-religious-identity" and ...

Glad tidings for tying the knot
Daily News & Analysis
But her school love Carl Mistry, a Parsi, was commitment phobic. “He proposed to me but said that he didn't know where the relationship would head,” Mistry, ...

Parsis hear chants of holy change
Daily News & Analysis
Belonging to a family of Parsi priests, Bhesania chose a different path for himself. f I had stepped into my family's footsteps, I would have lived in ...

Being BOMAN IRANI
Khaleej Times
We discuss Zoroastrianism next and his talk at the World Zoroastrian Congress, which took place in Dubai last month. “I talked about two simultaneous ..

Setting the Record Straight On NIAC
Payvand
As far as NIAC's associations go, the group's founder, a Zoroastrian by the name of Trita Parsi, has been accused of ties with two Iranian businessmen. ...
 

HC refuses to stay ban on 2 Parsi priests
Times of India
MUMBAI: The Bombay Parsi Punchayet got a shot in the arm on Thursday with the Bombay high court declining to stay its ban on two priests from performing ...
 

Iran unrest is a struggle for justice
Examiner.com
The prophet Zoroaster preached the first monotheistic religion on Earth sometime between the 18th and 10th century BC. The large range of years is simply ...

The Myth of the Three Wise Men
Consortium News
Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion of the Near East beyond Palestine. ... Zoroastrianism was the religion of the area until the arrival of Mohammed ...

Iran and the Spirit of the Airyanem Vaejah Nation
OpEdNews
I can see the spirit of Prophet Mehabad and Prophet Zoroaster and many of his faithful followers here as well. Before Islam conquered the land of the ...

Mumbai Parsis divided on intermarriage
GlobalPost
The group, Zoroastrian Youth for the Next Generation (ZYNG), was launched in ... Zoroastrianism is the religion that the cultural group Parsis follow. ...

Is Cricket Going Global? An Examination.
Keeda of Sports (press release) (blog)
The Parsis were the first to take to cricket in India and they formed the Oriental Cricket Club in 1848. Since then, cricket has come a long way in India. ...

Where are they now?
The Nation, Pakistan
It was a city where Sikhs, Hindus, Christians and Parsees coexisted ... This was the Sethna residence - home to two unforgettable Parsee ladies, ...

World Zoroastrian Congress Opens in Dubai Today
Khaleej Times
The 9 th World Zoroastrian Congress will mark a reunion of Zoroastrians (Parsees) from six continents, culminating in a New Year Eve party. ...

World Zoroastrian Congress Opens in Dubai Today
Khaleej Times
DUBAI - The global Zoroastrian diaspora will converge in Dubai for a four-day congress, starting today. The 9 th World Zoroastrian Congress will mark a ...

Bawa As Barmecide
Outlook
The first line is clear in its implication: Parsis eat crabs, pork, beef, anything. The second line associates them with a vague westernisation—calling for ...

Dadar Parsi Colony to stay 'exclusive'
Times of India
This led the Parsee Central Association Cooperative Housing Society to approach the court in 2003. The society was formed at the turn of the last century ...

The changing face of Santa Claus
Richmond News
Biblical scholars believe these three "magi" were Zoroastrian priests possibly from Persia, ... Zoroastrians were renowned for their knowledge of astronomy. ...

Dadar Parsi Colony to stay 'exclusive'
Times of India
MUMBAI: Residents of the landmark Dadar Parsi Colony, the largest Zoroastrian enclave in the world, have won a six-year-long legal battle to allow only ...

Celebrate Winter Solstice today
Examiner.com
The birthday of the god Mithras was celebrated on December 25 (Birthday of the Unconquered Sun); and the Persian prophet Zoroaster (“Ram of God who takes ...

Parsis flock to fire temple to celebrate anniversary
Daily News & Analysis
Mumbai: More than 2000 Parsis flocked to celebrate the anniversary of the city's youngest fire temple last week. The Shapurji Fakirji Jokhi Agiary in Godrej ...

At home with a Tea Pot
Mumbai Mirror
What's on the menu: Burgers, sandwiches, pasta, waffles, eggs, a few Parsi specialities such as dhansak, a soup of the day and a few drinks and desserts. ...

Quo Vadis, Hyderabad?
Outlook
Knowing my father
was a Parsi, Morarjibhai asked him where he came from. “Mool vatni kyan na? (What is your hometown?),” he asked him, only to receive what ...

Roots Search pdf Ebook Download
Khojeste Mistree of Mumbai (Bombay) is a known Zoroastrian scholar and historian . ... zoroastrians.pdf - Search search roots zoroastrians their ...

Baug flats won't be a burden on Parsis
Daily News & Analysis
Mumbai: The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) and the Alert Zoroastrian Association (AZA) on Friday resolved the flat allotment issue for poor Parsis at Panthaky ...

The Many Menus of Mumbai
Wall Street Journal
Parsi cuisine mixes Middle Eastern ingredients with Indian spices. The Persian origins of Parsi food are reflected in the chicken berry pulav, whose recipe ...

Our land, yet not allowed to inspect American Center: civic leaders
Expressindia.com
The 1338-acre prime plot had been leased to Parsi Hormosjee Battiwala in 1901 for 99 years, then sub-leased in 1933 to the American Center. ...

The romance of old Bombay
Hindu - Chennai,India
A picture of our prophet Zoroaster hung on the wall. Prayer books and chairs awaited the faithful. Sad to state, there was none, except myself, ...

 

Ancient site found in southern Iran
Press TV - Tehran,Iran
Primary studies showed that the fortress was built during the Sassanid era and the jar was part of the Zoroastrian burials once containing the remains of ...


Some old favourites and new!
Sakaal Times - Pune,India
Zal and I being hardcore Parsis, we believe in serving meals king size, Bawaji style,” adds Khodu with a smile. Vegetarians may not have a wide variety in ...

Singed by the sea
Times of India - New Delhi,India
It was in 1393 that a handful of Parsis fled Iran to protect their religion and landed at Sanjan in Valsad district on the Gujarat coast. ...

Dictator-lit: The Tajiks in the Mirror of History
guardian.co.uk - UK
Rahmonov also notes that the Avesta of Zoroastrianism is superior to the works of ... He placed Zoroastrian symbols on the national flag; the government's ...

 

Rings of Fire: Zoroaster Interviewed
The Quietus - London,UK
So are you Zoroastrians? Or are you named in honour of the late, great Farrokh Bulsara of Zanzibar, aka Freddie Mercury? WF: Hahaha... we used to get that a ...

Mehta: 40 Years of Making Music in the Holy Land
The Jewish Journal of greater L.A - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Mehta, a Zoroastrian who retains strong connections to his native India, calls the Jewish state “my beloved Israel.” He was there, in 1991, ...

 

TRIVIA - TOI's Powai Connection
Planet Powai
Powai - 29 November 09 : The Mumbai Parsi who dug the Powai Lake was also the founder of Times of India's forerunner called 'Bombay Times and Journal of ...

Parsi children return to their roots
Times of India - New Delhi,India
Every year, the Zoroastrian Children's Foundation (of which Kapadia is a ... On Sunday, over 2000 Zoroastrian kids converged at Shanmukhananda Hall, Sion, ..

Flavours Of The Past
Outlook
Dorabjee's is known for its Parsi food: their chicken farcha and sali boti are recommended, but their speciality is Parsi biriyani, bittersweet with the ...

Of an Edwardian India
The Hindu - Chennai,India
We were Parsis, yet we looked forward to Bakri Eid more eagerly than any Muslim household. Years ago, Grandpa had won an important case for Mr. Karim Khan. ...

Sreenanda Shankar's perfect match
Times of India
Introducing the glowing bride, Sreenanda Shankar and her dashing Parsi groom, Gev Satarawalla. “We were the best of friends for nearly eight months before ...

Sunday, 29. November 2009 - IndianFootball.Com reporter
IndianFootball.Com - Calcutta,India
An exhibition match was organized between a Parsee All Star Team versus Sports Journalist & Reporters which kept the audience glued. ...

It's Siesta Time
Times of India - New Delhi,India
... in the 10th century soon realised that the only way to conquer Zoroastrian warriors was to attack after the traditional Sunday lunch of Dhansaak. ...

Freddie Mercury memorial a beacon for British Asians
AFP
Mercury was born Farrokh Bulsara on the east African island -- now part of Tanzania -- in 1946, but his Parsi Zoroastrian family hailed from Gujarat in ...

Parsis seek seat in state assembly
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
Mumbai: The Parsis have decided to ensure that, like other communities, they too have a representative in the Maharashtra assembly. ...

MINORITY RELIGIONS
Herald Sun - Melbourne City,Victoria,Australia
One of the oldest monotheistic religions, Zoroastrianism was founded by the prophet Zoroaster about 3500 years ago. It was once one of the world's most ...

36 years later, HC dismisses petitions
Times of India
One of the properties belonged to the wellknown Parsi family of CRH Readymoney, who died in November, 1969, leaving behind an estate, valued at more than Rs ...

Encounters with the Unexpected
Jamaica Observer
The Parsi guide shared that: "In the Parsi religion we continue to hold the elements of Earth, Wind, Fire and Water as sacred. ...

Featured Editor: Onnik Krikorian
Global Voices Online (blog)
Onnik: OK, one of my favorite Global Voices posts in fact was, actually again, from Azerbaijan and it was about Nov
ruz which is the Zoroastrian new year The ...

Identity issues
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
He tells me that he was even more impressed with the musical works of a Parsi composer called Kaikushru Sorabji who wrote an interminable piece for piano ...

At 63, this grandfather is oldest man to slam T-20 ton
Times of India
No Parsi player has represented the Indian cricket team after Farookh Engineer. Now, he cannot but still Wadia's effort is good enough to make the cricket ...

A home sculpted to perfection
Daily News & Analysis
"Our home seems small now that the kids are growing up because they want more space," says Arzan about his cherished space in Dadar Parsi colony. ...

Headley's phone number in India found
Times of India
The clue to the mobile phone used by Headley was given by a 38-year-old Parsi lady who was working with him at his immigration services office set up in ...

I begged for help from police commissioner, Rupa Mody tells court
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
Mody said she had pleaded to the mob to spare her and her children as they were neither Hindu nor Muslim but Parsis. "But someone from the mob shouted: 'You ...

Hello, Dolly: An Alternative To Waxing
SanDiego.com - San Diego,CA,USA
Dolly and her family are Parsees—followers of the religion Zoroastrianism. The Parsees fledPersia after its conquest byArabs, and settled in India in the 8 ...

Parzania mother relives her horror
Daily News & Analysis
The Parsi couple lived in the society at the time of the riots. They lost their son in the riots, and now live with their only daughter in the upmarket ...

Jill Worrall leaves Timaru to take on the World - bringing ...
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
... 16th and early 18th centuries) long after most of the rest of Persia had converted to Islam, Abyaneh's inhabitants had remained resolutely Zoroastrian. ...

Grigor Khanjyan's mural tells the story of Armenia
Armenian Reporter - Yerevan,Armenia
... his famous Vardanank (center panel), the battle in 451 where Prince Vardan Mamikonian fought the Zoroastrian Persians to retain Armenian Christianity. ...

Parsi athletes shine at int'l sports meet
Times of India - New Delhi,India
MUMBAI: The rough football ground of Dadar Parsi Gymkhana is cultivating rare laurels. Two middle-aged neighbours have won India a gold and a silver medal ...

Headley's Parsi secy, answer to 26/11 link?
Mid-Day
A Parsi woman and a hotelier from Fort in Mumbai may complete the jigsaw puzzle about the 26/11 terror attack probe. The country's premier investigating ...

 

Caliphate: The great bait?
Enter Stage Right - Sudbury,Ontario,Canada
Roman Arabia was already a hotbed of revolt, and was easy for the Zoroastrian Sassanid Empire to conquer. Whether the subjects of the Persian-based Sassanid ...

Charity panel gives Parsi punchayat chief a clean chit
Times of India - New Delhi,India
The 350-year-old Punchayat is the apex body for the 45000 strong Parsi-Irani Zoroastrian community in the city. One of the oldest trusts, it is also one of ...

Eggsciting recipes
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
The Parsis have a love affair with eggs. You have the Parsi pora or omelette and, of course, the various versions of whipped eggs covering myriad vegetables ...

Zoroastrianism in the limelight
DAWN.com - Karachi,Pakistan
The Parsis arrived in India more than a 1000 years ago, fleeing the Arab invasion of Persia to preserve their religion, Zoroastrianism. ...

'Modi abused Jafri when he called for help'
Times of India
A young Parsi boy, Azhar Mody, also went missing from his house, the story of which became a Bollywood film Parzania. This film was banned in Gujarat. ...

Indian filmmaker unveils her own minuscule Parsi Minority
AFP
Welcome to the fictitious world of the Parsi Liberation Organisation led by a buffoon character in a zany movie that looks at India's Parsis -- both their ...

Still brewing in a dry land: Pakistan's only beer and whisky firm
Independent - London,England,UK
"Absurd as it sounds, it's true," said Mr Bhandara, who is a member of Pakistan's tiny population of Zoroastrians or Parsis and is also, ironically, ...

Happy Deepavali
Straits Times - Singapore
Turning up at an inter-religious meeting a couple of years ago in Singapore, Mr Yeo had this to say about the Parsis. This is the tiny community of ...

Quiet flows the Amu Darya
HardNews Magazine
According to the 11th century Persian poet Ferdausi, it is here that the battle between Rustum and Sohrab was decided in the Shahnameh, the Zoroastrian ...

On the Iranian Diaspora
Globla Brief - World Affairs in the 21st Century - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Note: The Arab conquest of 633 resulted in the exodus of, among others, a large number of Iranian Zoroastrians – the ancestors of today's Parsis – to India. ...

Perizaad has a baby boy
Times of India
Perizaad and Boman took the Hindu and Parsi calendars into account and settled on an auspicious date for the caesarean operation to be carried out. ...

Always standing tall, Field Marshal Manekshaw
Expressindia.com
Several members of the Zoroastrian community were also present. “We feel proud, always used to respect him a lot. We owe it to him,” said head Priest ...

International Religious Freedom Report 2009: Iran
Payvand
The Government estimates there are 30000 to 35000 Zoroastrians, a primarily ethnic Persian minority; however, Zoroastrian groups claim to have 60000 ...

Simply nuts about acting
Tonight
He is identified more for the remarkable characters he has played than the Parsi man he really is... Boman Irani is indisputably the finest of the lot. ...

Bawaal at Bawa meet
Mid-Day
The Bombay Parsi Punchayet (BPP) meet, which was called at Dadar Parsi Gymkhana last evening to mark one year of existence, was left without a voice, ...

Parsi body plans vulture breeding to help death rites
Daily News & Analysis - Mumbai,India
It is against the Parsis' Zoroastrian faith to either bury, ... A youth program -- Zoroastrian Youth for Next Generation will also be launched with a ...

Parsee goes French, bong does mexican
Mid-Day - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Fresh out of Paris' accomplished culinary school, Niloufer Mistry started catering out of her Napeansea Road home when she was just 21, because she was sure ...

Honour the heroes of war
Asian Tribune - Bangkok,Thailand
Nevertheless she offered him the post of Governor of Bombay Presidency where the biggest concentration of Parsis in the world lived and later when he ...

Back to the vulture
Business Standard
Parsi communities across the country have been eager to be involved in vulture conservation as the birds are integral to their funeral rites. ...


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